With Louisiana’s militias off fighting in Virginia and Tennessee, the job of defending the Crescent City fell to two forts ...

Join us as we step back into history at a Civil War Confederate camp alongside dedicated reenactors from the 48th Alabama ...

"People were jumping out of the windows." The Civil War was raging and the Union gunboat USS Rattler had been patrolling the Mississippi River near Rodney, Mississippi, and St. Joseph, Louisiana.

A cannonball is lodged in a historic Mississippi church, but was it fired by the Civil War gunboat USS Rattler?

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

Lane Nichols takes a luxury cruise down the mighty Mississippi River and falls in ... the scene of one of the Civil War’s bloodiest battles. We board a coach and head to the Vicksburg National ...

The exhibits covered the town’s history from the early Native Americans and the earthquakes of 1811-12 through the Civil War and New Madrid’s heyday as bustling Mississippi River port and ...

When it comes to family loyalties, Falcon Mickel’s beliefs are aligned with those of an iconic civil rights leader. “He said ...

American Cruise Lines has announced a new slate of extended cruises and 50-day+ U.S. river cruises honoring the country's ...

Lincoln, a clean-shaven 22-year-old with the barest of formal schooling, had set out in 1831 to haul freight down the ...